What it was like
Melodic dance music gets dismissed as the soft option by people who have never watched a room of two thousand strangers sing a synth line back at a stage. There is nothing soft about that. It is closer to a hymn than anyone involved would admit.
Chad Cisneros and Dave Reed have been at this since 2008, which in dance music is close to geologic time. They came up through the trance era, moved into progressive, and kept the thing that mattered — songs built to be sung rather than survived. The Hollywood room is a 1927 theatre with a balcony, and hearing this kind of material in a space designed for orchestras rather than sound systems does something odd and good to the low end.
Doors at ten on Saturday the twenty-sixth of September, the theatre on Vine, running until two.